Email on my phone!

So I spent all of this morning (well actually afternoon) setting up my
NYU email on my phone. After a couple of mistakes, including my
deletion of the ability to send outgoing mail, I was finally
successful. That is why I can now post this post by emailing this to
my blog from my phone! Hopefully it works...

Sent from my iPhone

Haircut!

I got a haircut with my friend Megan last weekend. When I sat down, the hairdresser asked me where I had last gotten my hair cut (Paris!) because apparently, in the back of my head, I had layers on the right side and no layers on the left. Guess I shouldn't try to get my hair cut if I don't know the language very well...

Anyways, here's a picture of the new hair:

A Moral Courage Conversation

With my friend Sara (from Paris) I went to "The Moral Courage Conversations with Irshad Manji: Salman Rushdie" at the 92st Y the other night. It's a lecture series that is organized by Steinhardt (the school of culture, education, and human development at NYU). Salman was great - very well spoken, intelligent, and witty, but Irshad was unfortunately a little annoying. She kept saying things like, "As I pointed out in my book..." or would interject in the middle of something Salman was saying to supply him with a word. Hopefully, as the series goes on, she will become a better interviewer. I can't remember specifically all that was said, as it happened like 3 weeks ago (sorry!), but it was interesting and Salman talked more about politics and moral issues than about his writing. Afterwords though, he held a signing and I brought my book and got it signed, so that worked out better than my last book signing with David Sedaris. I told him that Dad had bought his book of essays for me to help me with writing my own college essay and that it must have worked, because I got accepted to NYU! He said he was glad to have helped...

Water Street

So this year I'm living at 200 Water Street (or what we call "Water") and it's a huge dorm located right across from the South Street Seaport and not too far from Wall Street. If you're not familiar with NYC geography, I'm at the bottom of the island of Manhattan, about 20 minutes by bus away from school. It's quite a hike, but the general rule of thumb at NYU is that the farther away the dorm, the nicer. This is the last year that Water will be open, so I'm glad I'm getting to experience before it's no more. I'm living with my friend, past roommate, and now current RA, Aleja, as well as another girl, Allison (I can't seem to get away from people with my name!). So that we each get our own bedroom, I'm living in the common room, which is actually really awesome because I end up getting more space than anyone else, though in doing so, I forgo the benefits of a door. Oh, and we have a dishwasher, which is really exciting! I just taught Allison how to use it a couple of days ago. I'm still not finished decorating and stuff yet, but I'll put up pictures when I am. Until then, enjoy (and be jealous of) my view, it's the best part!

View from my bed:

This is what I wake up to every morning:

And the view at night is pretty good too:

This is what I see if I look directly across from my window. You can pretty much see right into the offices and vice versa. I keep hoping to see something juicy, but so far, it's only been a bunch of meetings:

Back to the City, Back to blogging

As requested by Dad, I've started a new blog about my goings-on in New York. Format-wise, I imagine that it will be very similar to my Paris blog, just different content. Anyways, hope you enjoy!

-Ali